Sell your semi truck for cash in Columbia the easy and convenient way

One quarry is filed under this city, 2.43 miles from the middle of it, and two things about it are unusual. The first is the crew: MSHA records three people. The second is that it is coded underground.

The register agrees with the map to an unusual degree here. The state carries this operation as approved aggregate producer 36000012, a Vulcan Materials plant, and the coordinate it publishes lands 0.16 miles from the one we hold. Being on that list is what allows stone from here onto a state highway job, so the match is worth checking rather than assuming.

MSHA Mine Data Retrieval System. Tennessee DOT Materials and Tests, Producer List Plants.

That underground code is the part worth knowing if you are selling something off this site, and it is not the ordinary case in Maury County or anywhere else on this list. A room-and-pillar mine runs at a stable temperature and out of the weather. Iron that stayed inside has had a materially different life from iron that ran the public roads out of the same gate — no freeze-thaw on the frame, no winter grit, and hours that accumulate without the miles that usually come with them.

Neither one is a problem for us. They are just different machines, and which is which is the kind of thing that has to be guessed at otherwise, from an odometer that does not describe the work. Tell us which yours was and nobody has to guess.

Three people is a small underground crew — the smallest on file in this research slice, against 79 at Chesney Underground and 60 at Jefferson County Stone over in Kentucky. A crew that size runs a short list of machines hard rather than a long list gently, which also shows up in the hours.

Those machines that do run the roads meet a denser network than most of this state’s pits. Within ten miles of the workings the bridge inventory records 223 structures. Seventeen are coded posted for load and nine of those are county-maintained; the nearest is 2.9 miles out.

The worst of the seventeen is rated 2.9 metric tonnes, about 3.2 US tons, and that number misleads if you read it as a cap. It is below the weight of an empty tandem dump, so no commercial truck crosses it at all, loaded or not. Fifteen of the seventeen, 88%, are rated at or above that eleven-tonne floor, and the lowest of those fifteen is 13.9 metric tonnes, about 15.3 US tons. That is the one that binds a load.

It leaves about 2.9 tonnes for the stone over the eleven an empty tandem already weighs, against the twenty-five or so a legal 80,000 lb truck carries. Across Maury County as a whole 18 of 227 county-maintained bridges are posted, 7.9%. And treat all of it as an upper bound inside a ten-mile circle rather than a guarantee about a particular route.

FHWA National Bridge Inventory 2025, Tennessee file, items 21, 41, 64 and 70.

Those crossings sit under one statute, and it gives this trade nothing extra.

Tenn. Code Ann. § 55-7-203 sets 80,000 lb gross, 20,000 lb on a single axle and 34,000 lb on a tandem, with up to 550 lb more for emissions-reduction equipment. Subsection (b)(7) deems weight restrictions to carry a ten per cent margin of error for logging, sand, coal, clay, shale, phosphate, solid waste, recovered materials, farm trucks and machinery trucks, off the interstate system only. Crushed stone is absent from that list, and so are limestone, aggregate and gravel.

§ 55-7-103 lets the department set a lower maximum between 15 January and 15 April, and at any other time for repairs, weather or recent construction, with a week’s notice posted at the termini of the road and at every detour.

And § 55-7-104 is the one that costs a working day. An overweight vehicle may not be moved until the load has been reduced into compliance or a permit obtained, and failing to comply is itself a Class C misdemeanour. It is not fined and waved on. It stops.

Tenn. Code Ann. §§ 55-7-103, 55-7-104 and 55-7-203, as summarised by the University of Tennessee County Technical Assistance Service. Information, not legal advice.

Beyond the weight rules the paperwork is short. A lost title has a counter replacement. Where none exists there is a bonded route. Neither one stops a sale.

The salvage rule is the one people repeat wrongly. Tennessee’s salvage and rebuilt part is built on the term passenger motor vehicle, and § 55-3-201 defines that as a vehicle ten model years old or less which, if it is a light-duty truck or a multipurpose vehicle, is rated at not more than nine thousand pounds gross.

So the seventy-five per cent threshold does not reach a truck rated above nine thousand pounds at any age, and does not reach a vehicle of any kind over ten model years old. Those limbs describe the class the part governs rather than exceptions inside it. Whether some other provision reaches such a vehicle was not determined and is not claimed here.

Tenn. Code Ann. § 55-3-201 and § 55-3-211, with the Tennessee Department of Revenue’s guidance. Information, not legal advice, and only as current as the day those were read.

Those rules reach every kind of iron we buy, and around a city with 223 structures inside ten miles of its quarry that is a wide range. Tandem dumps and aggregate haulers off the site 2.43 miles out. Loaders and haul trucks that spent their working life underground. Plant trucks and the water trucks that go with them.

Day cabs, road tractors, box trucks, straight trucks, flatbeds, rollbacks, tankers, service bodies, work trucks and pickups as well — not a Maury County thing in particular, they run everywhere.

Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change. We buy all of them.

• Does it have to run?No. It does have to be complete — if the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. Rust is not a disqualifier.
• The engine is out of it. Is that different?Yes, and that is the line. A tired engine is fine; an engine that has been pulled and sold means we can’t buy the truck.
• What about the title?We need one unless the truck is old enough that it never had one. Lost titles have a counter replacement, and where none exists there is a bonded route.
• It never went on the road. It worked underground.Say so, and say roughly how long. The workings are 2.43 miles out of town and plenty of iron there has never turned a wheel on a public road. Machines that stayed inside a room-and-pillar mine have not seen weather or road salt, and the hours mean something different from the miles. It is useful information, not a problem.
• Do you have to come out to look at it?Not necessarily, though Maury County is no trouble to get to. We’ll drive it away, we’ll tow it, or we’ll buy it where it stands and arrange the tow with nobody coming out. Driving it to us works too.
• The bridge on our road is posted.Several are — 17 within ten miles of the quarry, the nearest 2.9 miles from it. Getting the truck out is our problem to solve, not yours.
• How do you pay?Cash or electronic payment, whichever suits you.

None of that is usually the reason. The reasons here are ordinary ones. Retiring. A medical that went the wrong way. A contract finishing and the truck that served it having nowhere to go next.

On a crew of three, 2.43 miles out of Maury County’s seat, there is a sharper version: one person stopping is a third of the operation, and the machine that person ran is standing the next morning with nobody to take it on. A three-person outfit does not have a spare driver to absorb it.

Most of those aren’t happy reasons, and we don’t treat them like they are. Somebody wants a straight answer and the truck gone by the end of the week. That’s what we’re here for.